Meaning of cassone | Babel Free

Definitions

A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.

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Examples

“There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.”

“On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.”

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